Sticky Fingers: 12 Short Stories

Diverse, dark-humored, and deliciously bite-sized, this compelling collection of 12 short stories by JT Lawrence include: "Escape" - A story about about a suicidal baby who knows he was born into the wrong life, and has to get creative to correct the mistake, much to his mother's horror; "The Itch" - An intense, uncontrollable, unexplainable itch lands the protagonist in a mental institution.

Warped: A Menapace Collection of Short Horror, Thriller, and Suspense Fiction

From tales of chilling horror, to heart-stopping stories of suspense,
Warped is best-selling author Jeff Menapace's ultimate collection of short fiction.
Warped contains currently published tales of the macabre like "Princess" and "The Straw Man and a Murder", the currently out of print and award-winning "Sugar Daddy" and its sequel, "Sugar Daddy 2", and the author's preferred version of his controversial "Torment".

Transmission: A Supernatural Thriller

College students Kenji and Dylan stumble upon a strange recording in the background of an obscure song. It's a woman's voice uttering a string of seemingly random characters. Upon further inspection, the song appears to have been embedded with a hidden message. Attempting to crack the mysterious code and becoming obsessed with the recording, Kenji and Dylan set off in search of answers. With every turn in the road however, the puzzle only seems to grow more complicated.

Dark Inspiration

Doug and Laura Locke are New Yorkers who need a fresh start, so they move to Galaxy Farm, an old thoroughbred stable in Tennessee. There Doug finds the inspiration to write his epic novel, and Laura renews her passion for teaching. They also rediscover the love that first drew them together. But the home has many secrets. There's a graveyard hidden at the property's edge, and tragic deaths stalked the previous owners. Doug becomes entranced by the abandoned taxidermy in the attic.

Behold the Void

Behold the Void includes nine stories of terror that huddle in the dark space between cosmic horror and the modern weird, between old-school hard-edged horror of the 1980s and the stylistic prose of today's literary giants.

Amazon Customer says:"Fantastic book but I struggled with the narrator"

The House Next Door: A Ghost Story

I began to suspect something was wrong with the gothic building when its family fled in the middle of the night, the children screaming, the mother crying. They never came back to pack up their furniture. A new occupant, Anna, has just moved in. I paid her a visit to warn her about the building. I didn't expect us to become friends, but we did. And now that Marwick House is waking up, she's asked me to stay with her. I never intended to become involved with the building or its vengeful, dead inhabitant. But now I have to save Anna.

Fiends

In the frozen pit of blackest hell, Death sleeps. Ravishing beyond words, evil beyond our darkest dreams of Satan, Her eyelids flutter. Rising from Her pit, She wakes her vampire brood - and frees them from their ancient graves. No, no one is safe, no one - from the unwashed Children of Eve.

The Perfect Girlfriend

Meet Juliette. She's intelligent, driven, committed - and in love. Juliette loves Nate. She will follow him anywhere. She's even become a flight attendant for his airline, so she can keep a closer eye on him. They are meant to be. The fact that Nate broke up with her six months ago means nothing. Because Juliette has a plan to win him back. She is the perfect girlfriend. And she'll make sure no one stops her from getting exactly what she wants. True love hurts, but Juliette knows it's worth all the pain....

Garden of Fiends: Tales of Addiction Horror

The intoxication from a pint of vodka, the electric buzz from snorting cocaine, the warm embrace from shooting heroin - drinking and drugging provide the height of human experience. It's the promise of heaven on earth, but the hell that follows is a constant hunger, a cold emptiness. The craving to get high is a yearning as intense of any blood-thirsty monster. The stories inside feature the insidious nature of addiction told with compassion yet searing honesty.

FantasticLand: A Novel

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where "Fun is Guaranteed!" But when a hurricane ravages the Florida coast and isolates the park, the employees find it anything but fun. Five weeks later, the authorities who rescue the survivors encounter a scene of horror. Photos soon emerge online of heads on spikes outside of rides and viscera and human bones littering the gift shops, breaking records for hits, views, likes, clicks, and shares.

For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won't stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past the red church every day, where the Bell Monster hides with its wings and claws and livers for eyes. But the biggest problem is that Archer McFall is the new preacher at the church, and Mom wants Ronnie to attend midnight services with her.

The Demonic: A Supernatural Horror Novel

Years ago, a young girl ran away from her childhood home and vowed never to go back. It was a place of fear, pain, and misery at the hands of an abusive father. But now, her father is dead, and she is forced to break that vow and return home - to lay his body to rest and face up to the ghosts of her past. However, Danni is about to learn that some ghosts are more real than others. Something beyond her understanding waits for her there, lurking in the shadows.

Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors

Hasty for the Dark is the second short story collection from the award-winning and widely appreciated British writer of horror fiction, Adam L. G. Nevill. The author's best horror stories from 2009 to 2015 are collected here for the first time.

Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors

In ghastly harmony with the nightmarish visions of the award-winning writer's novels, these stories blend a lifelong appreciation of horror culture with the grotesque fascinations and childlike terrors that are the author's own.

Asylum: The Afterlife Investigations, Book 1

Enter Chaythe Asylum - a long-shuttered and controversial institution where patients were allegedly subjected to unethical experiments. Closed in 1989 after a series of grisly murders, Stephen deems the old building as good a place as any to explore the possibility of the supernatural, and arranges to take a tour with his students. But it turns out that the asylum is not as abandoned as it seems. There is something sinister in the building. It has watched and waited for nearly three decades.

The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead

Drawing from reams of historical data, laboratory experiments, field research, and eyewitness accounts, this comprehensive guide is the only book you'll need to face the greatest challenge mankind has ever encountered. Granted, you probably already know that skills such as wilderness survival, leadership, and basic first aid are important when fighting off hordes of the undead.

Every Dead Thing

Tormented and racked with guilt over the brutal slaying of his wife and daughter, Charlie Parker, ex-cop with the NYPD, agrees to track down a missing girl. It is a search that will lead him into an abyss of evil. At the same time, he is warned by an old black woman in Louisiana that "The Travelling Man" is about to strike again. Multiple strands converge with a horrific confrontation in which hunter and hunted are intimately connected by guilt.

Publisher's Summary

Horror lives in the shadows.

It exists under the earth's surface in ancient caves; below the vast sea's undulating waves; under dense forest cover; within a storm's thick, rolling clouds; downstairs in our homes, when we hear the knife drawer rattle in the night. Even our minds and bodies harbour the alien under the skin, the childhood nightmares in our subconscious.

In this collection of 15 tales Karl Drinkwater sews flesh onto the bones of our worst fears whilst revisiting some of horror's classic settings, such as the teen party, the boat in trouble, the thing in the cellar, the haunted museum, the ghost in the machine, and the urban legends that come true. No-one is safe. Darkness hides things, no matter how much we strain our eyes. And sometimes those things are looking back at us.

What Members Say

I didn't really find the stories scary but they were creepy and enjoyable. I love anthologies and I wasn't disappointed by these. The stories are all unique and the way the story is told changes as well. My only complaint is that some of them needed a little bit more to wrap up the story. R.J. Alldred did a great job and I look forward to hearing more from her.

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

3 of 3 people found this review helpful

Simone K

New York

07/10/17

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"Spooky but not Scary"

While this was certainly a fun collection of short stories, I may hesitate to call them horror. Some were fairly spooky, sure. But none met the level I'd consider necessary for the horror genre. I'd call these spooky suspense stories with some weird twists. If you enjoy some very, very light horror in a short form, this book is for you! If you want real scares, I would recommend looking elsewhere.

I was voluntarily provided this free review copy audiobook by the author, narrator, or publisher.

1 of 1 people found this review helpful

latasha

Nowhere Land

20/12/17

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Performance

Story

"They move below"

I received this audiobook in exchange for a honest review. I liked this! This collection of short stories all contain something that moves below. The stories were good and the narrator did a great job reading. I would read more by this author.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Shanna Tidwell

Ft Worth, TX

27/11/17

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Performance

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"Original & good "

Great collection of stories and a lot of originality. Wonderful narration. I will definitely be looking for my by this author. Nothing super scary but still a great collection.

I was voluntarily provided this review copy at no charge by the author, publisher and or narrator.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Amazon Customer

Sacramento, CA

02/11/17

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Performance

Story

"Great stories, Not so great narrator"

The stories were often brief and well written. The ideas were very well thought out and enjoyable. One of the stories loosely tied into Turner, another book by Karl Drinkwater. It was a nice little surprise.

The Narrator's voice was very soft. I had to listen to a story then come back later to continue it. Her voice has a lulling effect. Her reading was not bad, no stops in weird parts of the sentences and no mispronunciations of words. just so soft and lulling that i kept falling asleep.

I was given a review copy of this audiobook and I am leaving a voluntary review.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Wanda

Florida

17/10/17

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Performance

Story

"Can’t understand"

I’m truly sorry for the low rating but I listened to the first four chapters and have no clue what I listened to. The accent was so heavy I couldn’t understand what was going on. I received this free for an honest review from the author or narrator.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Kimberly Smith

Oklahoma City

08/09/17

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Performance

Story

"Horror??"

Although a few of the stories held my attention, not one was remotely scary enough to be considered a horror story. R. J. Alldred did a superb job with the narration. I will definitely be looking for more of her work. I received this audiobook at my request and voluntarily reviewed.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Vickie

08/09/17

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Performance

Story

"Great narration of not so great of a book."

I'm sorry this is a case of I just didn't get it. To be honest I am a horror genre junkie and this book didn't even move me enough to create a case of goosebumps. I'm very sorry but I can't recommend this book. I was voluntarily provided a review copy, all opinions are my own

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

Christine Newton

06/09/17

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Performance

Story

"Mixed bag of horror stories, excellent narration"

Any additional comments?

I'd give this collection of short stories an overall rating of 3.75. Many of the stories were deeply creepy and effective, while others made me shrug as if someone told me a joke and I didn't 'get' the punchline. So, a real mix here (in my opinion).

My top favourites would be 'Just Telling Stories', 'The Scissor Man', 'Creeping Jesus', and 'Regression'. I'd give honourable mention to 'If They Move Below', 'Claws Truth Forbear', 'Breaking the Ice', 'How it Got There', 'Overload', 'Second Transcript', 'Living in the Present'. The reason that most of my 'honourable mention' picks didn't make it into the top favourite list is because it seemed to me that they needed just a wee bit... more. Like, one final scene, or a tiny bit more explanation, or a bit more context, or something. For some of my 'honourable mentions', I was left wondering if I was following/understanding the story as the author intended. In other words even though the author walked me quite closely to the edge of the creepy abyss, a little cognitive part in my brain was still trying to figure stuff out. and deciding how to suspend my disbelief. On the other hand, with my top favourite stories in this collection, the emotional responses had pretty much drowned out the analytical processing. Of the stories that didn't make it to the 'honourable mention' or 'top favourite' lists, they didn't really produce a strong emotional response in me.

I reviewed the audiobook version of this collection and I was absolutely delighted with the narration. It took me a few minutes to adjust to a female voice, since all of the horror audiobooks that I've listened to during the past year have been narrated by men. But after a few minutes had passed, I completely engaged with R.J.Alldred. She did great character voices and her tone/pacing were superb. She is a great storyteller, in my opinion.

As a final note, I checked the reviews for the print version of this book and some of those reviewers mentioned the interesting story notes at the end of the book. The audiobook does NOT include the story notes. I think this is highly unfortunate. When I went to the Amazon.com site and looked at the page for the print version of this collection, I clicked on the "Look Inside" link, where I was able to scan through a few of the story notes. After reading some of them, those stories became much clearer to me and I had a much better understanding of the context and intent of those stories.

As an aside: It's one of the truly bummer things about audiobook formats - illustrations (obviously), references, and end notes often get omitted (to the detriment of the listener). I'd love to see audiobook publishing technology advance so that audiobook listeners could access some of this content (either in the Audible.com library or on the author's website, etc.). Even a password-protected web page would be great; simply provide the password at the end of the audiobook and then the listener could open the web site to see these missing additional pieces (not the story, just things like illustrations/photos/maps, references, end notes, the back cover of the book, and so on).

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

0 of 0 people found this review helpful

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